Mullica River

The Mullica River is a 50.6-mile-long river in southern New Jersey. It rises near Berlin in central Camden County, and flows east-southeast across the state, passing through the Pinelands before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. The river was named for Finnish settler Eric Palsson Mullica, who founded a homestead along the river during the New Sweden period. During the American Revolutionary War, British Army major Patrick Ferguson wreaked havoc on Patriot shipping in the Mullica River, from which many privateers attacked the British. The Little Egg Harbor massacre and the Battle of Chestnut Neck occurred along the river.